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Background
- The Highways Act 1980 Section 41 and 58 clearly
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Winter Service presentation www.sefton.gov.uk Background The Highways Act 1980 Section 41 and 58 clearly state that the Highway Authorities have a statutory duty to maintain the highway and must at all times take reasonable care to ensure
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Background
- The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (section
111) has inserted an additional section (41(1A)) to the Highways Act 1980 which places a duty on Highway Authorities in respect of winter conditions, as follows:-
- ‘In particular, a Highway Authority is under a duty to
ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that safe passage along a highway is not endangered by snow
- r ice’. The effective date of this duty is 31st October
2003.
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Background
- Code of Practice – Well Maintained Highways
- Major revision in September 2013
- Section 13 Winter Service
- Appendix ‘H’
- Changed from 30 to 157 pages of guidance.
- 49 Recommendations
- 13 Warnings
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Background
- Code of Practice – Well Managed Highways
- Introduced October 2016
- Transferred Winter Service Guidance to the NWSRG
- 5 New documents released in March 2018
- Increased Resilience Requirements
- Increased Storage Requirements
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Response to Revised Statutory Guidance
- New Winter Contract
- State of the art gritting fleet
- Gritting fleet tracked
- Purpose built Winter Facility in Netherton
- Long term strategy to meet statutory requirements
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Gritting Statistics
- 10 Carriageway Gritters
- 8 Carriageway Routes
- 10 Grams per square metre (minimum)
- 35 Tonnes per call out
- 291 Miles
- 35% of Network
- 3 Footway Gritters
- 5 Footway Routes
– Southport, Formby, Crosby, Maghull, Bootle
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Gritting Statistics
- Salt Storage for 3500 Tonnes
- Salt Restocking Agreement
- Thawrox+ 6 (3% Safecote)
- 2 Weather Stations
– Whinny Brook – Bentham’s Way
- Thermal Maps
- 8 Snow Ploughing Routes
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Bentham’s Way Weather Station
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Thermal Maps
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Grit Bin Locations
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Historical Data
Financial Year Number of Grits 2013/14 25 2014/15 30 2015/16 33 2016/17 38 2017/18 78 Average 41 2018/19 43 *December 2010 28
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Policy & Operational Plan
- Stage 1 – Routine winter Operations
- Stage 2 – EWET (Cabinet Member, Senior
- fficers & Key Personnel from across the
Council).
- In the event of Major disruption a regional co-
- rdinating arrangement will be put in place.
via Gold Control, chaired by Merseyside Police with an officer from EWET.
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Decision Making
- Duty Officers monitor the weather conditions 24
hours a day, 7 days a week for the winter season.
- W/C Last Monday in October – W/C last Monday in
March
- Forecast consultancy services provided by MetDesk.
- Bureau services provided by Vaisala.
- Contract has been awarded for the LCR for cost
savings and for sharing of data. (procured by Sefton)
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